Actions For Obsidian vs Taskdown.md
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Actions For Obsidian
This app bridges your personal knowledge management notes with Apple's automation tools. It offers over 40 actions to integrate your notes with other applications, enabling seamless data flow between your vaults and the wider Apple ecosystem.
- Create and manipulate notes
- Search and organize notes
- Work with files and folders
- Integrate with Dataview
- Utilize note properties
- Execute Obsidian commands
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Actions For Obsidian integrates the personal knowledge management tool Obsidian with Apple's automation ecosystem. With 40+ Shortcuts actions, it brings your notes and automations together, making Obsidian a first-class citizen in Apple's Shortcuts app. Use it to bring information from other apps into your notes, or to bring information from your vaults into other apps. Some of the possibilities it adds: - Creating, manipulating, searching, opening, organizing notes, including daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly ones - Working with files - Working with Dataview - Working with note properties - Working with your vault's files and folders - Working with Obsidian commands For a full list and detailed description, please click the "Website" link to the right or visit https://actions.work/actions-for-obsidian. ——— This application is not affiliated with or endorsed by Obsidian.md.
Taskdown.md
This app automatically extracts tasks from your Markdown notes, keeping them linked to their original context within your Obsidian vault. It offers a simple interface for editing, setting reminders, and due dates, syncing seamlessly with your existing files.
- Automatic task extraction from Markdown
- Links tasks to Obsidian context
- Simple interface for edits
- Reminders and due dates
- Seamless Obsidian vault sync
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Automatically gather your tasks from Markdown notes (no more manual cross-checking). Keep tasks linked to their original Obsidian context.Simple interface for quick edits, reminders, and due dates.Syncs seamlessly with your existing Obsidian vault.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Actions For Obsidian at 88% against Taskdown.md's 33%. Actions For Obsidian also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.5) and ratings volume (40 vs 2). Taskdown.md's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Actions For Obsidian sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Taskdown.md asks for nothing beyond the download.
Actions For Obsidian holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Actions For Obsidian has 40 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Actions For Obsidian's written reviews are positive against 33% of Taskdown.md's.
Actions For Obsidian ships an update every 3 weeks, Taskdown.md daily. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Actions For Obsidian | Taskdown.md |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (40 ratings) — better | 2.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Carlo Zottmann | KAI RICHARD KONIG |
Customer experience
Actions For Obsidian
Taskdown.md
In-app purchases
Actions For Obsidian
- macOS+iOS License Upgrade (S)$6.99
- macOS-only License (S)$8.99
- iOS-only License (S)$8.99
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- macOS+iOS License Upgrade (M)$8.99
- macOS-only License (M)$11.99
- iOS-only License (M)$11.99
- macOS-only License (L)$14.99
- iOS-only License (L)$14.99
- macOS + iOS License (S)$14.99
- macOS + iOS License (M)$19.99
- macOS + iOS License (L)$22.99
Taskdown.md
No in-app purchases
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